Two winners for Legislature

The General Assembly's two-day special session may have provided the state with two bits of good news.

The House and the Senate met to pass changes that will allow unemployed South Carolinians an extra 20 weeks of benefits. Without the changes, some 7,000 workers whose benefits had expired would be ineligible for the additional checks.

The Legislature also hastily adopted an industrial incentive package that may have helped lure a major industry to the state along with hundreds of new jobs.

The industry thought to be targeted with the passage of the legislation is Boeing, which is looking to build a huge assembly line for its new 787 Dreamliner.

Boeing has picked North Charleston as the future site.

The Charleston-area site could be the state's biggest industrial coup since BMW decided to build near Spartanburg.

With new jobs for the Lowcountry and additional unemployment benefits for the jobless, this could be one of the best economic weeks for South Carolina in some time.